Richard C. Rath
Associate Professor
Sakamaki Hall B203
(808) 956-7139
rrath(at)hawaii.edu
[BA Millersville, 1991; PhD Brandeis, 2001]
Early America, Native American History, History of the Senses
Representative Publications:
"Hearing American History," Journal of American History, (2008).
"Mediation and Sensory History in Early America” in Early American Mediascapes (Durham, N.C.: forthcoming).
How Early America Sounded (Ithaca, 2003).
"Drums and Power: Ways of Creolizing Music in Coastal South Carolina and Georgia, 1730-1790" in Creolization in the Americas: Cultural Adaptations to the New World (Arlinton, TX: 2000).
"Echo and Narcissus: The Afrocentric Pragmatism of W. E. B. Du Bois." Journal of American History (1997).
"African Music in Seventeenth-Century Jamaica: Cultural Transit and Transition." William and Mary Quarterly (1993).